Not the biggest issue to have this season, and I don’t know why it irritates me so much, but NJ starting every sentence in any interview with “Look…” is really starting to grate.
Why does he do it? It’s something that seemed to start with South African and Australian cricketers and rugby players a few years ago and then spread to English cricketers, then other sports over here.
Is it a psychological trick or something? An attempt to sound authoritative? (Some people seem to use “Listen…” instead by the way). Whatever the reason, it’s fucking annoying and I wish he’d stop it.
Now that’s off my chest, I can relax…😎
PS Who’ll post the first response starting with “Look…”?
My money’s on Mehmet or FA. 😂
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That's the trifecta.
Feeling proper bullied right about now
as does a lot of what he says
“that’s why the level is the level” the other day particularly ground my gears
I doubt you are perfect with the way you speak either.
Nathan Jones is an interesting character who needs to be successful as his CV has two failures after Stoke and Southampton and that is a bad 'Look'.
I can almost accept the word "Look" as a first response as it can direct you in a specific direction, ie answering a direct question, whereas "So" would be referring back to a previous situation or question, total wrong response to a question...imo.
In short "Look" is ok as I see it...but each to their own.
The "So" when answering a question is newer and was started by politicians/other interviewees a few years back. Gives 'em a few more seconds to get the bollox (which inevitably follows) straight in their heads.